June 2017 - Kansas City
We went to Kansas City to see the total solar eclipse. It was totally overcast in the morning, and then the clouds cleared right before the eclipse began. Then about 2 minutes before totality, and giant storm cloud moved in and covered up the sun. We thus did not get to see the corona, however we did experience the darkness of the solar eclipse which was _incredible_. We'll have to make it to another one to see the corona. I used a solar filter to snap a few pictures of the eclipse.
We went to Kansas City to see the total solar eclipse. It was totally overcast in the morning, and then the clouds cleared right before the eclipse began. Then about 2 minutes before totality, and giant storm cloud moved in and covered up the sun. We thus did not get to see the corona, however we did experience the darkness of the solar eclipse which was _incredible_. We'll have to make it to another one to see the corona. I used a solar filter to snap a few pictures of the eclipse.
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| Our campsite for the nights surrounding the eclipse, sitting right along a lovely lake | Relaxing around the fire before dinner | Matching eclipse shirts! |
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| The sun ready to break out behind the clouds minutes before the eclipse was to start | In position | A very small chip out of the top of the sun |
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| Eclipse among the clouds | ||
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| If you look really closely, you can see two sunspots | Right before totality, 1/20 shutter speed | |
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| 2 minutes later during totality, 1/8 shutter speed | Appearance of sunset on the horizon in every direction | The other side of totality |